Getting started

SO today was the first day of international orientation then the actual University orientation starts tomorrow. But hold on, I finally have a roommate, her name is Alison and she is from boston(go figure)but she goes to Columbia University. Here's something unexpected...she has no hair...anywhere. She introduced herself in kind of a rushed huff because she had just gotten back from the market and was like, "oh, i should tell you, i have this thing..where i dont grow hair..so i wear a wig" I honestly couldnt tell, but then she wips it off. Ok fine. No hair, i dont care, just something unexpected. SHe is with Butler college's abraod program, there are like 30 if them, and i met them all last night, in my apartment. I can see how this semester is going to go. I also found out i am one of 4 international students that came on their own, not thorugh a college...go me. Anyway, she did invite me out with them last night and it was fun, we went to some club/bars, not totally my scene, but it beats being alone. So Today was day one of orientation. We had all the regular academic stuff; the system here is so different from Emerson, its like real Uni classes and stuff, will take some getting used to. But also today, we took a museum tour of The auckland Museum (i forgot my camera but im going to go back later and take pictures because it was amazingly beautiful). The museum is located in this huge park called Auckland Domain. It has foresty areas and soccer fields and a botanical garden with a Fernery, you can guess that the whole time i was in the Fernz Fernery i was calling it Franz Ferdinany (a popular brittish rock band that is very posh right now). Then i walked back to campus to get some food, i can assume that i will be going to another pub tonight, hopefully more of a restraunt-y one, i dont care much for backpackers clubs, too many shady people. Thats it for now. Tomorrow we are going to get a traditional Maori welcome, Maori is the original culture that inhabited the islands hundreds of years ago, its a really interesting culture, but ill tell you more about it later. Thanks for reading!